Mackenzie Michalski, a New York native and nurse practitioner who went missing in Hungary this week, was killed by a man she met on vacation and stuffed inside a suitcase, according to local police. Michalski, 31, was last seen at a nightclub in Budapest in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Her friends said they last heard from her around the same time and eventually grew concerned when Michalski failed to check out of her Airbnb and missed her flight back to the United States, WGRZ reported.
Amid their investigation, authorities “noticed several suspicious circumstances” involving Michalski’s disappearance, according to a translated press release from the Budapest Police Department. They went on to track down a 37-year-old Irish man, spotted at several clubs with Michalski, who eventually confessed to killing her , police confirmed Friday. He claimed the slaying was an accident and led officers to where he hid her body.
In an update on Saturday, police said Michalski met the man at a nightclub and spent the night going to different venues with him. She then went to the suspect’s apartment, where he allegedly killed her a short time later. “The perpetrator then tried to cover up the murder; so he cleaned his apartment and hid the girl’s body in the wardrobe cabinet while he went out to buy a suitcase,” Budapest police said.
“ He then put the victim’s body in the suitcase , rented a car and drove to Lake Balaton with the suitcase in the trunk.” The suspec.
